Posted on 07/04/2019 2:34:47 PM PDT by Steve1999
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake jolted Southern California on Thursday, touching off house fires and damaging buildings in a desert town northeast of Los Angeles, but authorities said it has caused only minor injuries. The 6.4 magnitude quake, the largest in two decades in the area, struck about 113 miles (182 km) northeast of Los Angeles near the city of Ridgecrest at around 1:30 pm EDT (1730 GMT), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The Kern County Fire Department said it was dealing with “multiple injuries,” two house fires, small brush fires and gas leaks.
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Any reports from Trona, the small town closest to the epicenter? About 1500 live there. Man old buildings, could be bad?
Man = many
I felt in just south of Fresno. It just shook a little. A bit alarming for a few seconds but I lived through the Loma Prieta in 1989 and it was nothing like that.
Damage occurred most likely in Ridgecrest/China Lake Naval Weapons Center/Inyokern/Trona.
Looking at the map the epicenter was very close to Trona, a small town a little East of Ridgecrest.
1.) it’s just california, so who cares?
2.) i have relatives there. Should i care?
Yes, but i have been telling them for YEARS to MOVE the hell out of that cesspool.
I thought anything under 6.8 or 7 is just ho hum. No?
I get ya, I feel exactly the same when disasters like floods, hurricanes, blizzards and tornadoes strike Americans in other states..............oh wait a minute I don’t, I guess I will try harder to be a douchebag like some others.
Three days ago, I just watched 1974’s Earthquake with Charlton Heston.
And, I voted for President Trump.
Therefore: Trump’s fault!
/leftist think
The areas around Ridgecrest, Palmdale and Lancaster are probably the few sane areas left in Mexifornia,
Hard to achieve the level of douchebaggery of some Freepers I’m sorry to say.
6.8 or 7 in a largely rural area of the state....not so bad. Some local problems, but not a widespread disaster.
6.8 or 7 in Los Angeles County or near San Francisco....that would be a HUGE problem with widespread damage, injuries, and a number of deaths.
Funny and entirely accurate. I lived LA and then SF for 20 years, and got to be just as blasé. Could definitely tell whether it was a 5.2 or a 4.7...or. ....
“I get ya, I feel exactly the same when disasters like floods, hurricanes, blizzards and tornadoes strike Americans in other states..............oh wait a minute I don’t, I guess I will try harder to be a douchebag like some others.”
Way to Go! These a$$holes here who are always capping some state that they don’t like when natural disasters occur make me puke too. To continually crow about getting rid of this state or that tells me that some here have double digit IQ’s, or they’ve escaped the nut house or the senior center section where the mentally “challenged” are housed.
CA had a earthquake today, “oh goody, hope they all died. Or did it fall off into the Pacific Ocean?” What sick Ba$tard thinks like that.
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